Institute of Medicine News
November 6, 2003
1) Reports (Nurses and Patient Safety; Improving Birth Outcomes; Reducing
Birth Defects)
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1) RECENTLY RELEASED REPORTS
http://www.iom.edu/reports.asp
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses (November
4)
This report identifies solutions to problems in hospital, nursing home, and
other health care organization work environments that threaten patient safety
through their effect on nursing care. A companion to the Institute of
Medicine's earlier patient safety report, To Err is Human, the report puts
forth a blueprint of actions that all health care organizations which rely on
nurses should take.
>More information on this report, including the press release, is available
at http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=16173
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